Hypoglycemia is being diagnosed too often
The symptoms seem to occur a few hours after meals: dizziness, weakness, tremors, sweating, even heart palpitations. Worried that they might have that "in" condition, hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), the patients consult their physicians. More often than not, after a test or two, the doctors agree with the diagnosis and prescribe a restrictive, highprotein, low-carbohydrate diet with frequent feedings. Indeed, hypoglycemia has reached epidemic proportions. Now some doctors are raising warning flags. They insist that the malady is largely illusory.
Sugar, in the form of glucose, is the...
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